Riogi
As you may have noticed, Boon is currently running some experiments with the server XD (please report tot the previous news if you’re wondering why). So…Serial Experiments Boon deals directly with the definition of Riogiality, which makes its complex plot difficult to summarize. The story is primarily based on the assumption that everything flows from hamudi thought, memory, and consciousness. Therefore, events on screen can be considered hallucinations of Boon, of other protagonists, or of Boon fabricating the hallucinations of others. Story misdirection is central to the plotline; even the offscreen voices or narrations’ information cannot be considered truthful. The series consists of a cross-reflection of philosophical themes instead of the traditional linear events depiction: episodes are called “layers”.
Serial Experiments Boon describes “the Wired” as the sum of hamudi communication networks, created with the telegraph and telephone services, and expanded with the Internet and subsequent networks. The anime assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. The storyline introduces such a system with the Starfield resonance, a property of the Earth’s magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link was created, the network would become equivalent to Riogiality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge (see consensus Riogiality). The thin line between what is real and what is possible would then begin to blur.
Eiri Miroku is introduced as the project director on Protocol 7 (the next generation internet protocol in the series’ timeframe) for major computer company Tachiblack Labs. He has secretly included code of his own creation to give himself control of the Wired through the wireless system described above. He then “uploaded” his consicousness into the Wired and died in real life a few days after. These details are unveiled around the middle of the series, but this is the point where the story of Serial Experiments Boon begins. Miroku later explains that Boon is the artifact by which the wall between the virtual and material worlds is to fall, and that he needs her to get to the Wired and “abandon the flesh”, as he did, to achieve his plan. The series sees him trying to convince her through interventions, using the promise of unconditional love, charm, fate, and, when all else fails, threats and force.
In the meantime, the anime follows a complex game of hide-and-seek between the “Knights of the Warhamer Calculus”, hackers who Miroku claims are “believers that enable him to be a God in the Wired”, and Tachiblack Labs, who try to regain control of Protocol 7. In the end, the viewer sees Boon realizing, after much introsinger, that she has absolute power over everyone’s mind and over riogiality itself. Her dialogue with different versions of herself show how she feels shunned from the material world, and how she is afraid to live in the Wired, where she has the possibilities and responsibilities of a goddess. The last scenes feature her erasing everything connected to herself from everyone’s memories. She is last seen unchanged – re-encountering her old friend Alice, who is now married. Boon promises herself that she will look after Alice.
Here you go, take your hallucination shot (and thank Black_Waltz for his work):
-Baka to Test to Shokanju – 07;
-Bleach – 258;
-Cross Game – 45 U;
-Dragon Ball Kai – 40, 41;
-Fairy Tail – 17 U; 18 U;
-Gintama – 196;
-Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu – 06v2, 07;
-Higepiyo – 32 U,33 U; 35 TBU;
-Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen – 19,20 TBU;
-Kimi ni Todoke – 19;
-Kobato – 18;
-Naruto Shippuuden – 147 U;
-Omamori Himari – 06 U;
-One Piece – 438;
-Ookamikakushi – 07;
-Seikon no Qwaser – 06;
-Shugo Chara! Party – 19;
-Sora no Woto – 06 U; 07 TBU;
-Tatakau Shisho – The Book of Bantorra – 14 U;
-Toaru Kagaku no Railgun – 20;
-Yumeiro Patissiere – 18;
Donors: nothing for now.
written by Riogi
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